Also, if you are pendantic like me, you will want to find any duplicates and replace them – this is as simple as doing a word search or just manually looking through the lists. You will need to run the word generator twice as it has a maximum of 50 words per use, but this is easy enough to do.ģ. Obviously, for more modern games you could leave it as is.Ģ. For a typical D&D camapign, you will need to cull some of the more modern word in your list, which I haven’t done yet – words like pizza and camera – which came up on my lists.

This is provoking the more traditional factions within the elven leadership into serious action, but this new candidate has a lot of popular support.įrom here, I can create a background story that I can use while solo roleplaying. The elves are having what humans would call an election of their leadership, but one of the candidates advocates too much change within the elven community. To use an example from above: Why are the elves revolting against their own leadership? I could say the following. This gives me the following words from the four tables I created (the first, mixed the second, verb the third, nouns and the last, adjectives): candidate, provoke, chapter, and changeable.įrom these words, I can generate a story. I also created a simple D100 randomizer within the spreadsheet, which gives me a random number between 1 and 100 and then I use that to find the four words I will use, one from each column.Īn example would be if I generated (or rolled) the number 98. I created a simple spreadsheet within Google Docs and collected 100 of each type, as you can see below. These can be a mix of word types, or can be just verbs, nouns, or adjectives. The website is called simply enough, the Random Word Generator, and it does exactly what it says on the box: that is, generates random words. Well, that was until I came across a neat little site that generates random words for you.

Why is the dragon there? Why do the dwarves want to resurrect their ancient general? Why are the elves revolting against their own leadership?Īny time these sort of questions come up during the session, I use Paul’s tables.

I use it a great deal when I am faced with the question of why? It is a great tool to use when solo roleplaying (or SoloRPG) as you can use it a number of ways. In my post of how I solo roleplay Dungeons and Dragons I talk about how I use a word generator by Paul Bimler in his The Solo Adventurer’s Toolbox.

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